minigallery: The Planck Mission

Planck will study radiation left over after the Big Bang almost 14 thousand million years agoat the dawn of time, close to the Big Bang, about . It will be launched by an Ariane 5 together with ESA's Herschel mission in 2009.

Data recorded will allow astronomers will be able to travel back in time, towards the beginning of space and time as we know it now.